The Dickinson press., 1887-04-23
PERSONAL.


streets Beecher avenue.
Speaker Carlisle and his wife arc going to
Europe for tho summer.
A lock Of hair from tho head of tho first
Napoleon is owned by a Philadelphia musician.
Gen. Phil Sheridan gallantly carries his
wifes handbag when he goes shopping with
her.
There are five living ex-governors of Penn
sylvana: Hoyt, Hartranft, Curtin, Pollock
and Pattison.
The Prince of Wales now wears very
large double watch chain swung across his
ample waistcoat.
Joseph Drcxel, the banker, Of New York
and Philadelphia, plays tho fiddle and five
other instruments with facility.
The Duke of Westminster has promised to
give. during tho remainder of his life, 5000
n year for the building of new churches He
is now 60 years old.
James II. Marr, 81 years of age, and Inzo
Lawrenson, 81, aro tho Oldest employees at the
postal department, Washington. They were
appointed by Andrew Jackson in 1881.
Whom John Mackcy travels by rnil he is
always accompanied by a telegraph operator
with portable telegraph instrument for
sending dispatches i'll casp of necessity
During his courtship tho late Gen. Grant
wrote most valuable and interesting accounts
OF the doings Of the army i'll Moxico. Mrs.
Grant preserves them as her most precious
relics
Gen. Anncnkoff who rs building the Rus
sian railroad in Bokhara, is man of IS
Years, full of vigor, energy and hope. His
vito is less than half his ngc, and is n very
wealthy German latiy.
Tho retired list Of the navy is swelling
There nro so rear nt,mirals, Il com,noorcS,
II captains, 12 commanders. 20 lieutenant
commanders IL lieutenant>, lG surgeons, 20
paymas,crs and 10 engineers
Bill Scott, Of Eric, is IS years Old, tho
posscssor of s15,ooo,ooo, the richest man in
congress, md the employer of ;o,coh men
Thirty years aso he WAS n rannilrsS man
pcllling fish about the streets of Erie.
There is student in the Yale class of 'SS
whose great umric is ono of the two oldest
living graduates OF Nalc, whose father was n
graduate of IL who las thrco unclrs, four
cousins and three broth, Is among tho alumni.
George Herman, Of roughkccpsic a private
In the Thirty first New York regiment, has
received slo.c.., hack pension and II mnnthly
al!owan"" Of So He was wounded at South
Mountain ,v n fragment Of shell, which caused
permanent insanity and paralyzrd his lower
limbs.
A hundred wears ago A'iel Ponsc started
til" great clockmekins industry of Con
nc,tin'. He was n native of Enfield. and
there naln with IL iarl: l:nifn his first clock.
From this rule beginning has grown up MI
industry wlh supplies great portion of
the world with tmepieces.
Fifteen year Old O'Brien Atkinson, son of
Col. John Atkinson. of Detroit has Just com
p!c';';l horseback ri,le of l.:;2I miles On
Nov 4 hc etarir,l nione from his home to 60
to 81. Au:n.inc, Fla, Tor his health, and hc
reached there March /. He never Travelled
Oh Sunday, and always nttcndrd church when
he could
The other day Professor G. May, of Salem,
Ind, concluded that he had taught long
enough and closed his school. Ilo chose as
thu day tho fifty eighth anniversary OF his
marriage. He hnl been traching for sixty
five years, having spent II, lM days in the
schoolrooni, and STILL at tho nSc OF 81, was an
energetic and successful teacher
The autograph of Secretary Whitney is in
greater demand than that of any one con-
nectcd with the administration excepting
Mrs Cleveland. The secretary is very o!,ig-
ing, and has resortcd to neat device to save,
trouble The signatures to letters which n
second thought kept in tho Office arc cut off
and sent to those who desire them.
AT tho cabinet meetings Villas and Whitney
arc the takers. Lamar is generally very
quiet, but wakes up occasionally and scores a
good point. Bayarl talks n good deal at long
intervals. Fairchil1, who now occupies Man
ning's scat at the table, is essentially judicial
in his manner. IIcis COOL listener, n laconir
talkcr, and is said to he rs comlativc rs John
J.. Sullivan when fully aroused.
Some of the foreign representatives Mt
Washington who are not happy in their Eng
lish make funny mistakes. AT recent re-
ccption a diplomatist approached the hostess
to take leave of her. The Indy said to him:
care you going so soon'' and lie answered:
"I always do Mt your house" Hethought she
had used the stereotyped expression: ~ hope
you have enjoyed yourself! and ho got OFF
the usual answer to this query.